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ADDRESS 

OF 

PRESIDENT WILSON 

DELIVERED AT 

GETTYSBURG 


PENNSYLVANIA 
JULY 4, 19 13 



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ADDRESS 


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PRESIDENT WILSON 


DELIVERED AT 

GETTYSBURG 

PENNSYLVANIA 
JULY 4 , 1913 



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1913 





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ADDRESS. 


Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the bat¬ 
tle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray sit 
all about us here. Many of them met upon this ground in grim 
and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their 
comrades died about them. In their presence it were an impertinence 
to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signi¬ 
fied ! But 50 years have gone by since then, and I crave the privilege 
of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those 50 years have 
meant. 

What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and 
vigour, and the maturity and might of a great nation. How whole¬ 
some and healing the peace has been! We have found one another 
again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous 
friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except 
that we shall not forget the splendid valour, the manly devotion of 
the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping hands and 
smiling into each other’s eyes. How complete the union has become 
and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and ma¬ 
jestic, as State after State has been added to this our great family 
of free men! How handsome the vigour, the maturity, the might 
of the great Nation we love with undivided hearts; how full of 
large and confident promise that a life will be wrought out that will 
crown its strength with gracious justice and with a happy welfare 
that will touch all alike with deep contentment! We are debtors to 
those 50 crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty 
heritage. 

But do we deem the Nation complete and finished? These vener¬ 
able men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great ex¬ 
ample of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that 
the people might live. But their task is done. Their day is turned 
into evening. They look to us to perfect what they established. 
Their work is handed on to us, to be done in another way but not in 
another spirit. Our day is not over; it is upon us in full tide. 

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Have affairs paused? Does the Nation stand still? Is what the 
50 years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out, 
and completed? Here is a great people, great with every force that 
has ever beaten in the lifeblood of mankind. And it is secure. There 
is no one within its borders, there is no power among the nations of the 
earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with its own 
great standards set up at its birth, when it made that first noble, 
naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that 
a government had now at last been established w T hich was to serve 
men, not masters ? * It is secure in everything except the satisfaction 
that its life is right, adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of 
righteousness and humanity. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are 
not closed. We have harder things to do than were done in the heroic 
days of war, because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, 
more calm balance of judgment, a more candid searching of the very 
springs of right. 

Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg! Picture the array, 
the fierce heats and agony of battle, column hurled against column, 
battery bellowing to battery! Yalour? Yes! Greater no man shall 
see in war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the uttermost; the high 
recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We 
are made by these tragic, epic things to know what it costs to make 
a nation—the blood and sacrifice of multitudes of unknown men 
lifted to a great stature in the view of all generations by knowing 
no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In armies thus mar¬ 
shaled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, a nation 
embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how 
little except in form its action differs in days of peace from its action 
in days of war. 

May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that 
fight for the Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes for¬ 
getful of the common cause? Are our forces disorganized, without 
constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united because 
we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers 
and wickedness in high places. Are we content to lie still? Does 
our union mean sympathy, our peace contentment, our vigour right 
action, our maturity self-comprehension and a clear confidence in 
choosing what we shall do? War fitted us for action, and action 
never ceases. 

I have been chosen the leader of the Nation. I can not justify the 
choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about, and here 
I stand. Whom do I command ? The ghostly hosts who fought upon 
these battle fields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen 
stricken in years whose fighting days are over, their glory won? 
What are the orders for them, and who rallies them ? I have in my 


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mind another host, whom these set free of civil strife in order that 
they might work out in days of peace and settled order the life 
of a great Nation. That host is the people themselves, the great and 
the small, without class or difference of kind or race or origin; and 
undivided in interest, if we have but the vision to guide and direct 
them and order their lives aright in what we do. Our constitutions 
are their articles of enlistment. The orders of the day are the laws 
upon our statute books. What we strive for is their freedom, their 
right to lift themselves from day to day and behold the things they 
have hoped for, and so make way for still better days for those 
whom they love who are to come after them. The recruits are the 
little children crowding in. The quartermaster’s stores are in the 
mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day 
something must be done to push the campaign forward; and it must 
be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. 

How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved ? 
I would not have you live even to-day wholly in the past, but would 
wish to stand with you in the light that streams upon us now out 
of that great day gone by. Here is the nation God has builded by 
our hands. What shall we do with it? Who stands ready to act 
again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and 
patriotic fervor? The day of our country’s life has but broadened 
into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the 
present on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be con¬ 
quered in the interest of righteous peace, of that prosperity which lies 
in a people’s hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come, 
let us be comrades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in quiet 
counsel, where the blare of trumpets is neither heard nor heeded and 
where the things are done which make blessed the nations of the 
world in peace and righteousness and love. 


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